January 24, 2026 • 20 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 25th January 2026, Ruud talks about why hedgehogs are pests, mandarin trees not fruiting, and how to find wētā.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk said, B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You a new sort of zid B. It is a
thirty three climb. Past is dialing in as well. Good morning, Rod.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
A very good morning you, Peter. How is it all
going with you at the moment?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, yeah, good, Thank you for asking, mate, really
appreciate it. And you're up north and we know what
the weather well, not just up north, but you're okay
as well, and where you're staying so okay.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Earlier when we when we drove up north, we're on
our way. We're on our way out again or south
if you like, to get back home at some stages tonight.
But when we when we came from west Auckland and
drove literally to Rule, why my goodness. I look, I've
done many driving in my life, but nothing like that.
On State Highway sixteen that was just amazing. And the
(01:01):
further east du came the worst. It was, of course, right,
we all we all felt that's where the big gigs
came from. And on the west it was actually okay,
my goodness, what a storm still going by the way.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I know, I know, we're not out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yet Yeah, yeah, that was amazing. That was terrible. So
we got there in the end, but we'll be going
back hopefully and hopefully not too many delays with airplance.
That would be good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Sorry, I just got a text from the made of
Mind to ask you a question, but then I realized
that I'll read it out because we all need a
little bit of laughter. So Tim and mate goes morning fella,
can you ask the gardener mate why Spurs are playing
like lemons? It's an joke from a football fan from
what he gives me a hard so there is no
(01:53):
answer to that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yes, yes, very good question. It's a difficult European way
of doing it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Absolutely right. Let's get amongst it. If you've got a
question for Srud, you should call us now eight hundred
eighty and we'll get into the serious stuff now. Julie,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Good morning, And I've got a question for Rud. Why
does he hate hedgehogs so much?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't hate them at all. They were native to
the country where I lived. They are absolutely brilliant creatures
and they are wonderful, wonderful to have in the area
where they actually deserve to live, not somewhere in a
country where everybody that is getting eaten by hedgehogs is
(02:46):
basically under serious threat of being made extinct. That's what
I think of hedgehogs. I don't think they believe here
that they should be living here. They would be for instance,
give you an example they have. They do all sorts
of things with our native birds. For instance, they eat
(03:06):
with the and I've seen it in the forest. They
eat the eggs of all our native birds that are
on the ground. They're disease vectors. They also spread diseases.
They're competing with kiwi, for instance, for the food that
Kiwi need to eat. You know, you can now just
ask yourself the question, what would you prefer a hedgehog
or a kiwi? And you know that's that's sorry. That's
(03:29):
the way I think about it.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, because I've got two that visit my garden every
night and I put cat through that for them and
they come and they know when I if I get
the dish plastic dish, and I straggle along the concrete,
I go in the side, I get the torch, I
look out the window with the torch and these two
little huge hogs. It's stuffing themselves with food.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, I can imagine they will. They will. You know
what I've seen that was something that as an entomologist
I was really upset about. I saw one eating a
couple of wetter that was it, some simple stuff like that,
and sales skinks. They'll have a go with they. I
know they eat banded dodtrels. The babies on the nest
(04:18):
where the dodtrells you grow up if you like. And
then I go, oh, my gosh, I wish they went back.
They came, they went back to the Netherlands or somewhere
like that. Yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Where I mean. It does. Praise Thank you for that, Julie.
I mean, it is a fascinating question, isn't it, in
the sense that because the image that I had in
my head. I saw a picture the other day of
some people who said, oh, look, I heard something in
the laundry overnight went out and found that a kiwi
had wandered in and was snuffling around looking for food
(04:49):
in their house. And I guess what you're saying is
we can have hedgehogs and we think they're cute, but
if they're eating eggs and preventing the native wildlife from
restoring itself. Then I think it would be much better
if we had kiwi walking in eating in our gardens
than hedgehogs.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, and that you know that that whole debate,
by the way, Peter is also about about cats and
things like that. You know, the old story of the
cat cat guy, you know, uh, and it's it's still
like that. I think we can have cats as long
as we actually keep them in a way that was
compatible with us having nocturnal creatures running around the area
(05:31):
where we live, you know. And it's again kiwi and
it's all the rare stuff. And I think we should have,
you know, as long as we know how to look
after those those cats to be inside at home at night,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Where we go. Yeah,
and I don't hate it all.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I realized, And yeah, it's just yeah, it's it's well,
is it a balance thing. It's just there's a there's
a place, and maybe this isn't their place exactly. Let's die.
Good morning, good morning, How are we very well?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We are?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Good guy.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I really hate hedgehogs, but I ended up in the
hospital from one that's why. Yeah, So I ended up
in Middlemore Hospital for quite a while. We were playing
silly buggers at the batch, playing hide and seek with
the kids and stuff, and I took a shortcut and
(06:29):
tried to jump off the veranda and make a run
for the trees to hide, and I landed on top
of an adult hedgehog and I ended up with his
spikes quite badly in my foot, my right foot. We
pulled them out and we disinfected my foot.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Blah blah.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I put some classes on. We didn't want to make
two big a deal in front of the kids, so
that was fine. But I actually got a air infection
in it. Ended up in hospital, had to have surgery,
had to have a drain inserted into my big toe,
and then they freaked them completely out. Came back and said, actually,
affection is so bad we may look at amputating a
(07:09):
big toe. And I was like, oh, come on, you
cannot get your big toe amputato because of the hedgehog.
Imagine acc they won't believe you. But yeah, I ended
up being really really sick. It got into my got
into the wound and I had ringworm. I now very
susceptible to ringworm evidently.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Oh yes, yes, that's.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Right, ringworm. There was the it went to the blood.
I had the veins, you know, highlighted up my knee.
It got all the way up to my knee cap.
My whole leg, my cuff swelled up as big as
my thigh, which was not complimentary, but yeah no, And
(07:52):
I had a drain in there and I ended up
being put in a moan boat. And I was in
a moon boat for a month before. And now my
big toe doesn't quite work properly, but it's got a
very impressive scar on it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh my god, you know what you've just managed to do. Die,
You have managed to take our ratings down by about
people sitting in their chair going back.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I don't believe how sick I got from on that
hedgehop light.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
And he survived.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
He bloody ran off. Like everyone will say, oh she
squashed the hiptop. I did not squash the hdog. And
I'm amazed at how fast those buggers can run when
they know they're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And that one was on I feel I need to
get back on track. But that's a fabulous story, and
I'm pleased you well, and I'm pleased you've still got
your big toe. Ye, look after yourself, die, take care
and lovely few minutes. I have to say I've spent
quite a bit of time at Little More Hospital over
(09:01):
the last two weeks. I'll be hitting back there shortly.
Can I say to the nurses and the team there,
what extraordinary care? Just anyone that's ever gives them a
hard time, I feel it is just so unjustified. It's
been amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I totally agree with you, and I totally I love that, Peter.
That's the way, That's the way it is, this program,
this is probably one of the most amazing follow up
things that I've ever heard. So I love this today
and it's all of us. But it's about respect, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Absolutely all right, Susan, tell us about your mandain tree.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Yes, question, that is surprise. Yeah, my mandarin tree is
hasn't fruited this year. I had no blossom one it whatsoever.
It's healthy, we feed it, but the leads are a
little bit bumpy and a little bit curly, but not much.
And I've got a lemon tree that's around the corner
(10:03):
that seems to have not as much blossom. This year.
I so just wondering, well it yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
So there's two citrus trees that are of different origin.
I suppose that have these problems of not having enough
not having enough oomph to grow their their fruit with. Okay, Ken,
First of all, my first question to you is what
is the stuff that you call feed? What do you
feed your mandarin tree cychrus fader? Okay? And when do
(10:33):
you do that?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
We probably do it maybe, but no three or four
times a year.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh wow, that's quite something on this on the root zone. Yes, okay,
all right, that's number one. And it's not too wet,
not too dry the soil is it okay? In origin
and what it sounds and feels like.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah, it's it's been the same for it has been
when it's spread to the other years. So yeah, it's
been fine.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, not being over the top this year. Not too
much wet. No, okay, good, that's number one.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
The thing that I can suggest you do, and it's
just an extra little bit of material you can put
around the root zone is a sulfate of potash, solfate
of potashe that is a material that is the key
of the NPK ratios that you see in the gardening industry.
The k is the potash, and potash is a material
(11:31):
that actually encourages the tree or the shrub or the
plant or whatever it is, to make more flowers and
more fruit or seeds. In other words, it's about a
reproduction of the plant. That's really what it is. Of course,
so the potash is the one that actually encourages a
much better growth of things like seeds and fruits and
(11:53):
things like that. Have a go with that. Don't go
over the top. Just a couple of times, do it. Now,
do it again in autumn, and do it again in springtime,
and you will find that it will have enough potage.
And think for it of that naughty tree of saying, oh,
I'd better do something about.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
This, okay, to my lease, do you know what? You
don't think? I might have a mite and the leaf
looks a little bit too.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yes, yes, I'm not worried about that might. Okay, I
am really not that worried about that might. That might
is okay, and it's it's not going to cause too
much troubles at all. In fact, it will be in
and out depending on the tire that the temperature et cetera,
et cetera. I'm more interested in how your plant is
going to react with some potash, because that'll give it
(12:44):
the ability to reproduce.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Okay, thank you so much, indeed.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
All the very thanks for your call. I've got a
text that I will send you a photo of I
can't read it out on here, but you will love this.
And someone else I jumped. I jumped over the fence
and bear feed as a kid landed on a hedgehole.
Friend spent hours digging out the spine. I too, am
not a fan. Right, Yeah, we'll take a break. We'll
(13:10):
be back at a mow. You your theoks is like
fourteen nine and Jason A very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Good morning, Pete.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I've got two questions for root, one being about weather and.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Two being about ruberb. The first one is rubub.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Can I start ruberb from a cutting as such?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Or do I have to buy it because I don't
have much money.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, I don't think you can do it very well
with cuttings that I think it would be better for
you to get it from seeds and things like that.
Go that way, or get it just or get yeah,
or get some plants from the local nursery and you
only need one or two. It's honestly, it's not that
terribly expensive to wave one or two of those plants
(13:57):
and they'll go boom. Yeah, honestly, chaves you a lot
of vessels.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Kids.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I end up once before and you told me to
grow into the holes and I'll come out and they'll
come out.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
But it's not working.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
And I've just moved for Royal Oake and I want.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
To go to one tree hill.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
How can I'll find them there?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Well, it's not so much that. Yeah, it is your
way of finding them up up there. But the point is,
of course they live in little holes in trees if
you like, and it could be all for eating off
holes and that sort of stuff, and it's just a
matter of looking. What I would do is go out
at night with the head torch and see what it's
moving around the tree with holes. If there are holes
(14:41):
on a tree, and you might be finding them. This
is what I used to find in Auckland when I
lived in Meadow Bank. I had dozens of them in
the trees around my house and I would go out
at night to just have fun and see what they
were doing.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Awesome and your wife's got a pet one, is there?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well, I've got a couple that I have in captivity,
so I take them to schools and when I give talks,
for instance, but I use them with kids teachers so
they can actually then build their own little homes for
wetter So they have them around their own school and
they become wetter observers, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I love them, But I think you told me your
wife had a pet one is that? Is that right?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You even brought one into the studio. It was awesome,
one of your waters. Yeah, that's ribulous.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, And my wife having one as a pet is
a myth. I hope she's not going to smack me
around the ears when she is on the radio.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
They're all yours? Are they?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
A couple of quick texts. Why do my roses keep
getting lime scale all year? Is it soil condition?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It could be. It could be exactly that. It might
be not the right to pH if you like. And
it might be also it could be too much water,
not enough water. It could be all that sort of
stuff as well. It's hard to tell.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, let's see this one quickly because I find it
fascinating hey, rude, I live in Hastings. I spring filled
some assorted seed mix in the garden. One flower in particular,
untracted and unusual bee or wasp by search. It's a
wool karda bee O my favorite. Oh okay, listen up.
(16:20):
I pulled out all of the attractant plants and fly
sprayed and squashed the others as I was chasing the
bees away. I'd be interested in what you know about
this aggressive little beggar. Thank you for Rachel.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
You guys, it's a top gun flyer. It is unbelievable,
and it is always trying to get the normal bees
and other preachers that I needed.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, they compete for nectar and this is such a
little bugger. I totally agree with it. But I sit
there watching and I'm going like kimming there go boy
admired and does all this. It's brilliant. Yeah, no, look
at it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It's good, brilliant, that's brilliant. I love the response alistair
good morning.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Right after mayer lemonary ten or twelve years old. It
produces fruit on gin and tonics regularly, which is good.
But we're dropping quite a few small lemons that are
sort of I suppose less than one centimeter in diameter. Yeah,
is it normal or does it nothing wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's normally in the fact that it quite often happened
in various conditions. Excessive shedding like that, especially when they're
very small, is usually done because of stress. Imagine the
weather we've had, dry, hot water, water logged, you know
what I mean. Nutrient deficiency, so in other words, not
enough fertilizers, extreme temperature changes. That makes a lemontary go like, nah,
(17:52):
not doing it this year? Blow that not going to
keep up with it. So it's that material. So it
is natural thinning. You've got to be very careful with
what you're doing. Give it a regular amount of water,
a regular amount of fertilizer, spring and summer, and you
protect them, especially from wind, because if you've got a
lot of wind, like we've got right now, the tree
(18:12):
goes like, nah, not me.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Those conditioners in the last few weeks.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, exactly exactly, you got it? Yeah, go on, you.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Didn't like that. It's pretty sick as well. So these
are prone. How hard can I prone it and win?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Basically you prune it after you have harvested them. They're
they're usually good in the winter town for harvest, don't they.
But honestly, if you want to do it because you're
losing some fruit anyway, do it now and open the
crown of the shrub or the tree so that there's
a little bit more air coming through, et cetera, et cetera.
(18:51):
You know what I mean. Do it a little bit now,
and then most of it later on in autumn and
autumn and winter if you like, after winter.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Take care.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Very quickly. I've got another thing I'm talking about. Cedar.
Do you remember cedar?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I do? Oh, yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, I knew you. I'm not saying you forgot. I
know you're Cedar is a natural insect repellent oil. It
just moths, It does carpets, and it does mosquitoes. That
is the question you got, Yester the last week from
somebody that that senter this text in and there it was.
(19:34):
I was absolutely flebberga. I did not realize how good
it was. There.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
You are awesome, because you know, over the last however
many years, often you know, if I've got the right
client or I'm doing something for myself. When it comes
time to doing shelving in like a linen cupboard or
something like that. I've done it for clients a couple
of times where maybe I'll take some cedar off cuts
(19:57):
and I'll rip them down to make the slattered shelves
in an old fashioned linen cupboard. Because my understanding is
the cedar helped prevent and fear station from moths and
so on. And I guess I never dug into it.
I just heard that that's how it worked. But now
that there is, you've done the research, and I just
think that's such a lovely way of doing something really
(20:18):
simple that has a really beneficial outcome and it's completely natural.
How amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And here's something for you, your friend, that does all
the painting. There's an oil called seed Draw one word
seedar at ceedro o l seed draw and that does
exactly what you are talking about perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We're going to run lovely to talk to you, Rud.
Thanks for your company, folks.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
You a new sort of zid B. It is a
thirty three climb. Past is dialing in as well. Good morning, Rod.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
A very good morning you, Peter. How is it all
going with you at the moment?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, yeah, good, Thank you for asking, mate, really
appreciate it. And you're up north and we know what
the weather well, not just up north, but you're okay
as well, and where you're staying so okay.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Earlier when we when we drove up north, we're on
our way. We're on our way out again or south
if you like, to get back home at some stages tonight.
But when we when we came from west Auckland and
drove literally to Rule, why my goodness. I look, I've
done many driving in my life, but nothing like that.
On State Highway sixteen that was just amazing. And the
(01:01):
further east du came the worst. It was, of course, right,
we all we all felt that's where the big gigs
came from. And on the west it was actually okay,
my goodness, what a storm still going by the way.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I know, I know, we're not out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yet Yeah, yeah, that was amazing. That was terrible. So
we got there in the end, but we'll be going
back hopefully and hopefully not too many delays with airplance.
That would be good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Sorry, I just got a text from the made of
Mind to ask you a question, but then I realized
that I'll read it out because we all need a
little bit of laughter. So Tim and mate goes morning fella,
can you ask the gardener mate why Spurs are playing
like lemons? It's an joke from a football fan from
what he gives me a hard so there is no
(01:53):
answer to that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yes, yes, very good question. It's a difficult European way
of doing it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Absolutely right. Let's get amongst it. If you've got a
question for Srud, you should call us now eight hundred
eighty and we'll get into the serious stuff now. Julie,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Good morning, And I've got a question for Rud. Why
does he hate hedgehogs so much?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't hate them at all. They were native to
the country where I lived. They are absolutely brilliant creatures
and they are wonderful, wonderful to have in the area
where they actually deserve to live, not somewhere in a
country where everybody that is getting eaten by hedgehogs is
(02:46):
basically under serious threat of being made extinct. That's what
I think of hedgehogs. I don't think they believe here
that they should be living here. They would be for instance,
give you an example they have. They do all sorts
of things with our native birds. For instance, they eat
(03:06):
with the and I've seen it in the forest. They
eat the eggs of all our native birds that are
on the ground. They're disease vectors. They also spread diseases.
They're competing with kiwi, for instance, for the food that
Kiwi need to eat. You know, you can now just
ask yourself the question, what would you prefer a hedgehog
or a kiwi? And you know that's that's sorry. That's
(03:29):
the way I think about it.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, because I've got two that visit my garden every
night and I put cat through that for them and
they come and they know when I if I get
the dish plastic dish, and I straggle along the concrete,
I go in the side, I get the torch, I
look out the window with the torch and these two
little huge hogs. It's stuffing themselves with food.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, I can imagine they will. They will. You know
what I've seen that was something that as an entomologist
I was really upset about. I saw one eating a
couple of wetter that was it, some simple stuff like that,
and sales skinks. They'll have a go with they. I
know they eat banded dodtrels. The babies on the nest
(04:18):
where the dodtrells you grow up if you like. And
then I go, oh, my gosh, I wish they went back.
They came, they went back to the Netherlands or somewhere
like that. Yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Where I mean. It does. Praise Thank you for that, Julie.
I mean, it is a fascinating question, isn't it, in
the sense that because the image that I had in
my head. I saw a picture the other day of
some people who said, oh, look, I heard something in
the laundry overnight went out and found that a kiwi
had wandered in and was snuffling around looking for food
(04:49):
in their house. And I guess what you're saying is
we can have hedgehogs and we think they're cute, but
if they're eating eggs and preventing the native wildlife from
restoring itself. Then I think it would be much better
if we had kiwi walking in eating in our gardens
than hedgehogs.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, and that you know that that whole debate,
by the way, Peter is also about about cats and
things like that. You know, the old story of the
cat cat guy, you know, uh, and it's it's still
like that. I think we can have cats as long
as we actually keep them in a way that was
compatible with us having nocturnal creatures running around the area
(05:31):
where we live, you know. And it's again kiwi and
it's all the rare stuff. And I think we should have,
you know, as long as we know how to look
after those those cats to be inside at home at night,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Where we go. Yeah,
and I don't hate it all.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I realized, And yeah, it's just yeah, it's it's well,
is it a balance thing. It's just there's a there's
a place, and maybe this isn't their place exactly. Let's die.
Good morning, good morning, How are we very well?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We are?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Good guy.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I really hate hedgehogs, but I ended up in the
hospital from one that's why. Yeah, So I ended up
in Middlemore Hospital for quite a while. We were playing
silly buggers at the batch, playing hide and seek with
the kids and stuff, and I took a shortcut and
(06:29):
tried to jump off the veranda and make a run
for the trees to hide, and I landed on top
of an adult hedgehog and I ended up with his
spikes quite badly in my foot, my right foot. We
pulled them out and we disinfected my foot.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Blah blah.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I put some classes on. We didn't want to make
two big a deal in front of the kids, so
that was fine. But I actually got a air infection
in it. Ended up in hospital, had to have surgery,
had to have a drain inserted into my big toe,
and then they freaked them completely out. Came back and said, actually,
affection is so bad we may look at amputating a
(07:09):
big toe. And I was like, oh, come on, you
cannot get your big toe amputato because of the hedgehog.
Imagine acc they won't believe you. But yeah, I ended
up being really really sick. It got into my got
into the wound and I had ringworm. I now very
susceptible to ringworm evidently.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Oh yes, yes, that's.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Right, ringworm. There was the it went to the blood.
I had the veins, you know, highlighted up my knee.
It got all the way up to my knee cap.
My whole leg, my cuff swelled up as big as
my thigh, which was not complimentary, but yeah no, And
(07:52):
I had a drain in there and I ended up
being put in a moan boat. And I was in
a moon boat for a month before. And now my
big toe doesn't quite work properly, but it's got a
very impressive scar on it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh my god, you know what you've just managed to do. Die,
You have managed to take our ratings down by about
people sitting in their chair going back.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I don't believe how sick I got from on that
hedgehop light.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
And he survived.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
He bloody ran off. Like everyone will say, oh she
squashed the hiptop. I did not squash the hdog. And
I'm amazed at how fast those buggers can run when
they know they're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And that one was on I feel I need to
get back on track. But that's a fabulous story, and
I'm pleased you well, and I'm pleased you've still got
your big toe. Ye, look after yourself, die, take care
and lovely few minutes. I have to say I've spent
quite a bit of time at Little More Hospital over
(09:01):
the last two weeks. I'll be hitting back there shortly.
Can I say to the nurses and the team there,
what extraordinary care? Just anyone that's ever gives them a
hard time, I feel it is just so unjustified. It's
been amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I totally agree with you, and I totally I love that, Peter.
That's the way, That's the way it is, this program,
this is probably one of the most amazing follow up
things that I've ever heard. So I love this today
and it's all of us. But it's about respect, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Absolutely all right, Susan, tell us about your mandain tree.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Yes, question, that is surprise. Yeah, my mandarin tree is
hasn't fruited this year. I had no blossom one it whatsoever.
It's healthy, we feed it, but the leads are a
little bit bumpy and a little bit curly, but not much.
And I've got a lemon tree that's around the corner
(10:03):
that seems to have not as much blossom. This year.
I so just wondering, well it yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
So there's two citrus trees that are of different origin.
I suppose that have these problems of not having enough
not having enough oomph to grow their their fruit with. Okay, Ken,
First of all, my first question to you is what
is the stuff that you call feed? What do you
feed your mandarin tree cychrus fader? Okay? And when do
(10:33):
you do that?
Speaker 7 (10:35):
We probably do it maybe, but no three or four
times a year.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh wow, that's quite something on this on the root zone. Yes, okay,
all right, that's number one. And it's not too wet,
not too dry the soil is it okay? In origin
and what it sounds and feels like.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah, it's it's been the same for it has been
when it's spread to the other years. So yeah, it's
been fine.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, not being over the top this year. Not too
much wet. No, okay, good, that's number one.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
The thing that I can suggest you do, and it's
just an extra little bit of material you can put
around the root zone is a sulfate of potash, solfate
of potashe that is a material that is the key
of the NPK ratios that you see in the gardening industry.
The k is the potash, and potash is a material
(11:31):
that actually encourages the tree or the shrub or the
plant or whatever it is, to make more flowers and
more fruit or seeds. In other words, it's about a
reproduction of the plant. That's really what it is. Of course,
so the potash is the one that actually encourages a
much better growth of things like seeds and fruits and
(11:53):
things like that. Have a go with that. Don't go
over the top. Just a couple of times, do it. Now,
do it again in autumn, and do it again in springtime,
and you will find that it will have enough potage.
And think for it of that naughty tree of saying, oh,
I'd better do something about.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
This, okay, to my lease, do you know what? You
don't think? I might have a mite and the leaf
looks a little bit too.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yes, yes, I'm not worried about that might. Okay, I
am really not that worried about that might. That might
is okay, and it's it's not going to cause too
much troubles at all. In fact, it will be in
and out depending on the tire that the temperature et cetera,
et cetera. I'm more interested in how your plant is
going to react with some potash, because that'll give it
(12:44):
the ability to reproduce.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Okay, thank you so much, indeed.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
All the very thanks for your call. I've got a
text that I will send you a photo of I
can't read it out on here, but you will love this.
And someone else I jumped. I jumped over the fence
and bear feed as a kid landed on a hedgehole.
Friend spent hours digging out the spine. I too, am
not a fan. Right, Yeah, we'll take a break. We'll
(13:10):
be back at a mow. You your theoks is like
fourteen nine and Jason A very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Good morning, Pete.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I've got two questions for root, one being about weather and.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Two being about ruberb. The first one is rubub.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Can I start ruberb from a cutting as such?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Or do I have to buy it because I don't
have much money.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, I don't think you can do it very well
with cuttings that I think it would be better for
you to get it from seeds and things like that.
Go that way, or get it just or get yeah,
or get some plants from the local nursery and you
only need one or two. It's honestly, it's not that
terribly expensive to wave one or two of those plants
(13:57):
and they'll go boom. Yeah, honestly, chaves you a lot
of vessels.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Kids.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I end up once before and you told me to
grow into the holes and I'll come out and they'll
come out.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
But it's not working.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
And I've just moved for Royal Oake and I want.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
To go to one tree hill.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
How can I'll find them there?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Well, it's not so much that. Yeah, it is your
way of finding them up up there. But the point is,
of course they live in little holes in trees if
you like, and it could be all for eating off
holes and that sort of stuff, and it's just a
matter of looking. What I would do is go out
at night with the head torch and see what it's
moving around the tree with holes. If there are holes
(14:41):
on a tree, and you might be finding them. This
is what I used to find in Auckland when I
lived in Meadow Bank. I had dozens of them in
the trees around my house and I would go out
at night to just have fun and see what they
were doing.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Awesome and your wife's got a pet one, is there?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well, I've got a couple that I have in captivity,
so I take them to schools and when I give talks,
for instance, but I use them with kids teachers so
they can actually then build their own little homes for
wetter So they have them around their own school and
they become wetter observers, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I love them, But I think you told me your
wife had a pet one is that? Is that right?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You even brought one into the studio. It was awesome,
one of your waters. Yeah, that's ribulous.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, And my wife having one as a pet is
a myth. I hope she's not going to smack me
around the ears when she is on the radio.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
They're all yours? Are they?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
A couple of quick texts. Why do my roses keep
getting lime scale all year? Is it soil condition?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It could be. It could be exactly that. It might
be not the right to pH if you like. And
it might be also it could be too much water,
not enough water. It could be all that sort of
stuff as well. It's hard to tell.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, let's see this one quickly because I find it
fascinating hey, rude, I live in Hastings. I spring filled
some assorted seed mix in the garden. One flower in particular,
untracted and unusual bee or wasp by search. It's a
wool karda bee O my favorite. Oh okay, listen up.
(16:20):
I pulled out all of the attractant plants and fly
sprayed and squashed the others as I was chasing the
bees away. I'd be interested in what you know about
this aggressive little beggar. Thank you for Rachel.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
You guys, it's a top gun flyer. It is unbelievable,
and it is always trying to get the normal bees
and other preachers that I needed.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, they compete for nectar and this is such a
little bugger. I totally agree with it. But I sit
there watching and I'm going like kimming there go boy
admired and does all this. It's brilliant. Yeah, no, look
at it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It's good, brilliant, that's brilliant. I love the response alistair
good morning.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Right after mayer lemonary ten or twelve years old. It
produces fruit on gin and tonics regularly, which is good.
But we're dropping quite a few small lemons that are
sort of I suppose less than one centimeter in diameter. Yeah,
is it normal or does it nothing wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's normally in the fact that it quite often happened
in various conditions. Excessive shedding like that, especially when they're
very small, is usually done because of stress. Imagine the
weather we've had, dry, hot water, water logged, you know
what I mean. Nutrient deficiency, so in other words, not
enough fertilizers, extreme temperature changes. That makes a lemontary go like, nah,
(17:52):
not doing it this year? Blow that not going to
keep up with it. So it's that material. So it
is natural thinning. You've got to be very careful with
what you're doing. Give it a regular amount of water,
a regular amount of fertilizer, spring and summer, and you
protect them, especially from wind, because if you've got a
lot of wind, like we've got right now, the tree
(18:12):
goes like, nah, not me.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Those conditioners in the last few weeks.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, exactly exactly, you got it? Yeah, go on, you.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Didn't like that. It's pretty sick as well. So these
are prone. How hard can I prone it and win?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Basically you prune it after you have harvested them. They're
they're usually good in the winter town for harvest, don't they.
But honestly, if you want to do it because you're
losing some fruit anyway, do it now and open the
crown of the shrub or the tree so that there's
a little bit more air coming through, et cetera, et cetera.
(18:51):
You know what I mean. Do it a little bit now,
and then most of it later on in autumn and
autumn and winter if you like, after winter.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Take care.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Very quickly. I've got another thing I'm talking about. Cedar.
Do you remember cedar?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I do? Oh, yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, I knew you. I'm not saying you forgot. I
know you're Cedar is a natural insect repellent oil. It
just moths, It does carpets, and it does mosquitoes. That
is the question you got, Yester the last week from
somebody that that senter this text in and there it was.
(19:34):
I was absolutely flebberga. I did not realize how good
it was. There.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
You are awesome, because you know, over the last however
many years, often you know, if I've got the right
client or I'm doing something for myself. When it comes
time to doing shelving in like a linen cupboard or
something like that. I've done it for clients a couple
of times where maybe I'll take some cedar off cuts
(19:57):
and I'll rip them down to make the slattered shelves
in an old fashioned linen cupboard. Because my understanding is
the cedar helped prevent and fear station from moths and
so on. And I guess I never dug into it.
I just heard that that's how it worked. But now
that there is, you've done the research, and I just
think that's such a lovely way of doing something really
(20:18):
simple that has a really beneficial outcome and it's completely natural.
How amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And here's something for you, your friend, that does all
the painting. There's an oil called seed Draw one word
seedar at ceedro o l seed draw and that does
exactly what you are talking about perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We're going to run lovely to talk to you, Rud.
Thanks for your company, folks.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
See you next Sunday For more from the Resident Builder
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